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Alinea, Antoine Bookstore's book review, is available on our website.
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| Conditions of use and sale
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General Conditions of Sale
Article 1: Recitals
The present General Conditions of Sale shall solely apply to the relation between Librairies Antoine SAL, having its registered office in Achrafieh- Al Istiklal Street- Elissar Building- Beirut- Lebanon (hereinafter called “We/Us”) and any person visiting or performing an online purchase via www.antoineonline.com, exclusive of purchases via Amazon.com Int’l Sales (Sites: www.amazon.fr ,www.amazon.com,www.amazon.co.uk) (hereinafter called “You”).
For every purchase performed via an Amazon site, kindly read the general conditions of sale accessible through the home page of each of the abovementioned sites.
All Internet surfers may read the General Conditions of Sale on www.antoineonline.com(hereinafter called the “Site”). Since those General Conditions are subject to modifications, the applicable conditions shall be those displayed on the Site on the date your order is placed.
Article 2: The Contract
2.1 Conditions for placing an order
You declare being above 18 years old, enjoying legal capacity or holding a parental authorization allowing you to place an order via the Site.
Every order processed on the Site shall correspond to the normal needs of a household.
2.2 Phases of Contract Conclusion
After having placed your order, We shall send You an e-mail confirming the content thereof and informing You of the possibility of modifying (adding or removing items) or canceling your order, until dispatch date. This possibility of modification or cancellation does not include “Special Order” items, unless as set forth in article 3 below.
We shall inform You by e-mail that your items have been dispatched. The said e-mail shall confirm our acceptance of your order and constitutes therefore the Sale Agreement concluded between You and Us.
We reserve the right to reject any order bound for a country in a state of war with Lebanon.
Article 3: Prices, Availability and Delivery
Prices on the Site are displayed by default in US dollars. Prices are inclusive of all Lebanese taxes (Lebanese V.A.T. and other applicable taxes), but exclusive of carriage costs, order processing fees and gift-wrapping fees.
We equally offer You the possibility to display the prices in other currencies, including the Euro (EUR), the Lebanese Pound (LBP) or the Pound Sterling (GBP). Prices in other currencies are displayed according to an exchange rate defined by Us. Prices are solely indicative and do not reflect the product selling price, which is always determined in US dollars.
Payment shall always be made in US dollars (USD). Every payment performed through a bank account in any currency other than the US dollar shall be debited according to the applicable bank rate in the market.
We accept your orders subject to available stocks. We shall inform You of the items available for sale on the Site, on the information page of each item, that shall be accessible through the button link “Add to the Basket”. We cannot provide You with more information on availability. Delivery time limits are only indicative and We cannot, in any and all cases, guarantee delivery within these time limits.
In case You order an item that is not available in our stock (Special Orders), We shall debit the total amount of that order even before dispatching it. You shall agree that the Special Order cannot be cancelled nor returned without our express authorization. Such authorization is not guaranteed and shall be given at the sole discretion of Librairie Antoine Sal.
If, despite our vigilance, the items requested are not available, We shall inform You of their unavailability by e-mail in the shortest time limits. In case of unavailability within the specified time limits, We will suggest that You submit your order through our partner site Amazon.
We remind You that your payment card shall be debited upon the placement of your order. In the event of item unavailability, We shall fully reimburse the amount paid.
Despite all our efforts, a limited number of items among thousands of items displayed on our Site may include a price error. However, be confident that We shall verify prices upon dispatch of your item. If the real price is less than the price displayed on the Site, We shall charge You the lower price and send You the item. If the real price is higher than the one displayed on the Site, We shall inform You about it and cancel your order unless You choose to accept to place your order under the new price.
Article 4: Customs Duties
Every order placed through the Site and delivered outside Lebanon may be subject to taxes and customs duties applicable upon the parcel’s arrival at destination. You shall be responsible for and bear the possible customs duties and taxes related to an item delivery. We shall not be responsible for checking and informing You of the applicable customs duties and taxes. Therefore, We suggest that You seek these information from the competent authorities in your country.
Article 5: Payment
Payment may be effected by payment card, check, or in cash.
Cards issued by banks located outside Lebanon shall necessarily be international banker cards. In the event of payment through payment cards, the due amount shall be debited upon the placement of your order.
Payment by bank checks is only possible for checks drawn on banks located in Lebanon. In the event of payment by check, the check shall be cashed upon receipt thereof.
The check shall be made to the order of Librairies Antoine SAL and sent to the following address:
Antoine Online
Akalian Building
Horsh Tabet
Sin el Fil
Lebanon
For payment in cash or by checks, the items will only be sent after the amount due is credited to our account.
For payment by payment card, the order shall be automatically cancelled in case the payment card is rejected by the competent authority.
In the case of delay of payment from your part, We shall be entitled to claim interests on arrears calculated according to the official rate applicable, as of the date of the notice to pay.
Article 6: Returns
If We accept to replace an item that turns out to be damaged or that does not meet Your order, You shall return the said item within 30 days as of the date We have confirmed its replacement. Should You fail to honor your obligation of returning the said damaged or non-complying item within 30 days, or should We receive the item in a condition that does not meet the description You made thereof in your claim, We shall reserve the right not to reimburse the full price paid.
Article 7: Reservation of Ownership
The items delivered shall remain our property until You fulfill all your obligations towards us, namely until the full payment of the price, plus interests if applicable.
Article 8: Guarantees and Liability
You shall benefit from the provisions of the legal guarantee for latent defects.
We disclaim any responsibility in case the delivered item is not in conformity with the legislations of the country of delivery.
We are committed to all the diligence due in the business, for the provision of the service offered to the client. However, We decline any responsibility in case We fail to fulfill our contractual obligations due to an act of God or to force majeure, as defined by the judicial precedents rendered by Lebanese courts.
Should the publisher or distributor be out of stock, We shall not be held responsible for any delay. Moreover, We shall not be held responsible in case of non-substantial differences between the items photos, texts and illustrations on our Site and the ordered items.
We shall use all the means available to Us to provide the services covered by the present General Conditions of Sale. We shall be responsible for all direct and foreseeable damages at the moment of use of the Site or the conclusion of the sale contract between You and Us. We shall not, in all and any case, be responsible for profit loss, commercial loss, data loss, shortfall in earnings, or for any other indirect or unforeseeable damage at the time of the use the Site or of the conclusion of the sale contract between You and Us
The liability limitation above shall not apply in case of fraudulent misrepresentation or gross misconduct from our part.
Article 9: License to Access the Site
We shall grant You a limited license for your personal access to and use of the Site. You are not authorized, in any case, to download or modify part or all of Our Site without Our written express authorization. This license does not allow You, in any case, to use this Site or its content (listed products, descriptions, prices, downloading or copying information for other traders’ accounts, use of data, software, audio clips, graphics, images, texts, photos, tools) for sale or any other commercial use.
This Site or any part thereof shall not, in any case, be reproduced, copied, sold, or used for commercial purposes without our written express authorization.
You shall not use techniques allowing the copying of a trademark, a logo, or any other information (namely images, texts and layouts) We own, without our written express consent. You shall not use meta tags or any other “hidden” texts displaying our name, trademark or the name of any of our group companies, without our written express consent. Any non-authorized use shall terminate the license We have granted You.
We shall grant You a nonexclusive and revocable authorization to create a hypertext link to the Site home page, provided that this link does not create a deceitful, false or pejorative representation of, or entail any damage to, Us, the companies of our group or our products or services. However We decline any responsibility whatsoever arising from this link and concerning the content of Your site. Any use of our logo, trademark or images in Your link requires our prior written express authorization.
Article 10: Reviews, Critiques, Communications and other Contents
The Site users may send Us critiques, reviews or any other content; they may send their suggestions, ideas, questions or any other information, as far as this content is not illegal, obscene, abusive, threatening, slanderous, inconsistent with the intellectual property rights or detrimental to third parties, and is not or does not contain any viruses, political militancy, commercial solicitations, mass mailing, chain mailing or any other form of spam. You shall not use a fake e-mail address or a fake personal or collective identity. You shall not give false content sources. We reserve the right to remove or modify any content you post on the Site, at our total discretion.
Unless otherwise provided for by Us, if you send Us content, You accept to give us and the companies of our group, for the legal copyright duration, the free and non-exclusive right of exploiting, duplicating, modifying, adapting, publishing, translating, distributing, sub-licensing and displaying the said content in the entire world and through all media. You grant Us, the companies of our group and our sub-licensees the right to use the name You gave Us when supplying your content. You shall waive your right to be identified as the author of such content. You shall accept to perform all deeds necessary to guarantee the rights that You grant Us, namely through the execution of all deeds and documents upon our request.
You declare and guaranty that You are the owner of, or holder of the necessary rights related to the content that You transmit to Us; and that on the date of the content transmission: (i) the content is exact and true, and (ii) the use of the content is not inconsistent with any of our policies and does not entail prejudice to any third party (namely that the content is not slanderous). You agree to indemnify Us in case of any action taken by a third party against Us, having as reason, grounds or origin the content that You sent Us.
Article 11: Protection of Personal Data
We undertake to protect your personal data. All personal data that are related to You and that We collect shall be processed with the utmost confidentiality.
Article 12: Applicable Law and Competent Jurisdiction
The present General Conditions of Sale are subject to the French law and to the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
Any dispute in relation with the commercial relation between You and Us shall be submitted to the exclusive competence of the Lebanese jurisdiction.
Article 13: Identification
You may contact us through: http://www.antoineonline.com/contactez-nous.
If you think that any of the contents displayed on our Site may infringe any of your intellectual property rights, or if you have any question concerning our Site, please send us a letter to the following address:
Antoine Online
Akalian Building
Horsh Tabet
Sin el Fil
Lebanon
Article 14: Orginal Version
The present General Conditions of Sale are the exact translation of the French version of the same. However, in case of any difference between the English version and the French version, the French version shall prevail.
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